Curtain hanging and adjusting device.



E. M. MARTIN.

CURTAIN HANGIN'G AND ADJUSTING DEVICE.

APPLICATION FILED Ausm. 19x4.

1,205,372. Patented Nov. 21, 1916.

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ELIZABETH M. MARTIN, OF STERLING, ILLINOIS.

CURTAIN HANGING AND ADJUSTING DEVICE.

Specification. of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 21, 1916.

Application filed August 31, 1914. Serial No. 859,287.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ELIZABETH M. MAR- TIN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Sterling, in the county of WVhiteside and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Curtain Hanging and Adjusting Devices, of which the following is a specification.

My invention pertains tocurtain hangers and adjusters, and aims to eliminate the present inconvenient method of removing and replacing curtains, and arranging the same after being replaced.

The present method of performing the foregoing operation consists in climbing upon a ladder, chair or other object, which is not only a laborious undertaking, and impossible for some persons, but it is also attended with more or less risk of bodily injury to the operator.

By the use of my device it is possible to remove the curtain, return it to its position, and adjust it, while standing on the floor.

In the drawings: Figure 1 is a front view of my invention, in position for use. Fig. 2 is a cross-section through the curtain sup porting head. Fig. 3 is a detail of the curtain adjusting member, in side elevation. Fig. 4 is an enlarged cross-section in the line a"w of Fig. 3. Fig. 5 is a plan view of the curtain supporting mechanism.

1 represents a cylindrical handle, provided with a telescopic member 2, upon the.

upper end of which handle is a semi-cylindrical socket, formed of a member 3, attached to the handle 1, and a member 4, connected with the part 3. Held in such socket is a support 5, having a part 6 adapted to be longitudinally extended by means of a slot 7 in the bottom thereof, through which pass pins 8 fixed in the bottom of the socket, the heads of said pins preventing removal of the part 6. The support 5 is similarly provided with a longitudinal slot, permitting a limited longitudinal movement thereof.

9 indicates a curtain. rod, adapted to be engaged by the support 5, with the curtain attached thereto, and removed from its usual supports in the window casing.

By adjustment of the parts 5 and 6 the support may be made to conform to curtain rods of varying lengths, and by adjustment of the part 2 of the handle the length of Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner 01 rateutsf such handle can be increased or shortened at will, to accommodate the same to windows of varying heights. The edges of the parts 3 and 1 are rolled outwardly so as not to catch in the curtains and tear the same.

The curtain is returned to its position in front of the window by reversing the operation, and returning the curtain rod to its usual supports.

On the outer end of the part 2 of the handle is a crook-shaped member 10, the walls of which are each provided with a series of openings, forming a plurality of bars 11, the edges of which are bent outwardly. When the curtain has been replaced in :position, the tool is inverted .and the member 10 caused to engage that part of the curtain which is folded over the rod 9. By moving the tool back and forth along the rod the curtain or pair of curtains supported thereon, can thus be evenly distributed and adj usted, the operation being performed from the floor, as in removing and replacing the curtains. The operation of arranging the curtains somewhat resembles the action of a persons hand, the bars 11 corresponding with the fingers thereof.

All of the parts of the device are preferably formed of sheet metal, the handle 1 being rolled into shape and having the part 3 integral therewith, and the part 2 similarly rolled, and having the member 10 in tegrally connected therewith. This construction adds greatly to the ease and cheapness of production thereof.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is:

A device of the class described, compris ing a handle; a semi-cylindrical socket attached to one end thereof; and a pair of semi-tubular supports, telescopically arranged, provided in their inner ends with coinciding slots, and secured to said socket by means of pins passing through said slots into the socket.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

ELIZABETH M. MARTIN.

Witnesses:

W. N. HASKELL, F. G. GIFFRoW.

Washington, D. G. 

